Andy Goldsworthy quotes - page 2

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful. (Andy Goldsworthy)
The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. View quote
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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. View quote
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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames. View quote
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones. View quote
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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red. View quote
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Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far. View quote
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose. View quote
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I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another. View quote
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way. View quote
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Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned. (Andy Goldsworthy)
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form. View quote
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The early firings contained many stones. View quote
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The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it. View quote
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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures. View quote
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People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city. View quote
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The skepticism of the art establishment seems to be based on, as much as anything, a kind of big-city prejudice against work so free from urban angst. ~ Lynn Macritchie in Art in America. View quote
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One of the most engaging artists to emerge from Great Britain in the last decade. ~ Art in America. View quote
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt. View quote
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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s. View quote
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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source. (Andy Goldsworthy)
The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it. View quote
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I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball. View quote
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A new kind of poetry is created when Andy Goldsworthy works with stone, wood and water - our world never looks quite the same again ~ "Searching for the window into nature's soul", Smithsonian magazine. View quote
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